Firms/companies
Yahoo acquires social shopping site Polyvore
01 Aug 2015
Maruti Suzuki DZire enters `million club'
01 Aug 2015
Facebook to test drone `Aquila’ for internet access in remote areas
01 Aug 2015
The sun-powered Aquila drone would operate between 18km and 27km above the altitude of commercial airplanes and stay up in the air for 90 days at a time
US activist investor becomes top Rolls-Royce shareholder
01 Aug 2015
US-based ValueAct, which acquired 5.44 per cent in Rolls-Royce, is known for its tactics of pressing for selling of the company where it invests, but may find it tough in Europe
ICICI Bank Q1 net profit up 12% at Rs2,976 crore
31 Jul 2015
Rosneft, Exxon jointly bid for Mozambique oil fields
31 Jul 2015
Exxon will become the operator of the field if the two companies win the tender, Rosneft says
IDFC Q1 net dips 46 per cent to Rs241 crore
30 Jul 2015
Dr Reddy's Q1 net up 14% at Rs626 crore
30 Jul 2015
BG parent Centrica to cut 6,000 jobs
30 Jul 2015
BNP Paribas to acquire brokerage firm Sharekhan
30 Jul 2015
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HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
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Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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